#lpff

I do appreciate having a text-based game so a character can use strong language, something no longer quite so easy to do with voice acting.

Also, Cloud's flashback to Tifa freaking out about Sephiroth killing her dad and being connected with Mako, Shinra, Soldier while Cloud lies exactly where his uniformed mook self lies in the flashback is unusually coherent considering how cryptically a lot of the backstory is delivered.

Remember when President Shinra was menacing? If a bit baffling. Showing himself for a staged assassination attempt, er, terrorist attack, seems fairly careless, as does letting AVALANCHE blow up a reactor just to get rid of them. In general I'm not entirely sure the justification for President Shinra's dastardly destruction of innocent lives makes sense — even if he's using AVALANCHE as scapegoats for urban demolition and renewal, he's burning up a lot of resources (mako reactors) and taxpayers.

Okay, so that voice really is Cloud's alternate (original) suppressed personality. Although it seems like the flowers start talking to him for a moment there.

(Minor triumph as I figure out how to drop barrels on the mooks. I don't know why I never realized you could just say no to the first barrel you poked, and everybody below would wait and twiddle their thumbs while you wandered around in the rafters deciding which one to push over.)

I do wish the sequels would remember Aeris' bravado. She grew up in the slums. She threatens to rip people's balls off. She's flirty, but she's assertive. Maybe Aerith is a slightly different person.

We already have the calendar of the first Women's Professional Football League #LPFF

I corrected the calendar with the new info.

i havent reread the comics in literal years so take this with a grain of salt but his character in hearstopper is kinda like comic relief if the comedy was actually random bits & pieces of life advice. hes like the group wise old man i guess?? like he is an introvert in HS but not to the overwhelmingly shy levels of radio silence. like that speech scene alone is so different to the aled we see in HS its not even funny

theres also just a ton of character defining moments or relationships in RS that aren't so much as hinted at in HS. daniel being his childhood boyfriend situation. carys running away. ANYTHING about the existance of carys at all. the entirety of universe city.

even tho aled is technically in HS its like a husk of the version of him in RS. he has no real defining characteristics. he isnt close with anyone. he gets no sideplots like the rest of charlie's friends. he barely has anything going on for him in HS.

and then charlie gets too busy to do a speech and aled is a pushover who let's himself take his friends job despite knowing he'll be nervous?? and they never speak again????? idk theres something there but idk how to put it into words!!